Survive! (film)

Survive!
Survive!
Directed by	René Cardona
Screenplay by	René Cardona Jr.
Based on	Survive! by Clay Blair
Produced by	René Cardona; René Cardona Jr.
Starring	Hugo Stiglitz; Luz María Aguilar
Cinematography	Genaro Hurtado; Luis Medina
Edited by	Marshall M. Borden; Alfredo Rosas Priego
Music by	Gerald Fried; Raúl Lavista
Production; companies	Avant Films S.A.; Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE); Productora Fílmica Real; Productora Fílmica G.M.
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (United States)
Release date	January 15, 1976
Running time	111 minutes
Country	Mexico
Languages	Spanish; English

Survive! (Spanish: Supervivientes de los Andes - Andes Survivors) is a 1976 Mexican thriller film directed by René Cardona.^[1] The film was released on January 15, 1976 in Mexico and is based on the 1973 book Survive! by Clay Blair, which is based on the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.^[2]^[3]

Premise[edit]

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.

Cast[edit]

Hugo Stiglitz as Francisco
Norma Lazareno as Silvia
Luz María Aguilar as Mrs. Madero
Fernando Larrañaga as Madero
Pablo Ferrel as Raúl
Leonardo Daniel as Carmelo
Sara Guasch as Mamá de Silvia
Gloria Chávez as Mujer que va a boda (as Gloria Chaves)
José Elías Moreno as Rodrigo Fernández
Capitan Carlos Camacho as Pilot

Reception[edit]

The New York Times gave a negative review for Survive!, calling it "an irksomely dubbed film of rudimentary exposition with a sometimes tinny musical accompaniment".^[4] Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars, saying, "In most movies featuring a lot of blood and cuts and close-ups of festering wounds and all that, the typical audience laughs to break the tension (horror movies almost always play as comedies). With Survive! though, the audience tends to be a little more sober, a little more thoughtful. Maybe that's because we realize that underlying this rather dumb, uninspired, even crude film is a true story of such compelling power that we're forced to think and respond."^[5]

Over the Labor Day weekend 1976, the film opened in Chicago and grossed $1,060,000 from 63 theaters which propelled it to number one at the US box office.^[6]^[7]

Notes[edit]

^ As with the U.S. distribution of Survive! (1976), Paramount Pictures later distributed in Alive (1993), except in the United States and Canada, where it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the studio's adult-orientated Touchstone Pictures banner.

References[edit]

^ Villa Roiz, Carlos (1997). Popocatépetl: mitos, ciencia y cultura : un cráter en el tiempo. Plaza y Valdés. p. 336. ISBN 9688564885.
^ Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruétalo (2009). Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America. Routledge. pp. 160, 163, 166–167. ISBN 978-0415993869.
^ Hofler, Robert (2010). Party Animals. Da Capo Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0306816550.
^ "The Screen: 'Survive!'". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
^ Ebert, Roger (September 6, 1976). "Survive!". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 31, 2020 – via RogerEbert.com.
^ "'Survive' Smash $1,060,000, Chi; 'Bodyguard' Tall 22G, 'Wine' 17G". Variety. September 8, 1976. p. 14.
^ "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. September 15, 1976. p. 9.

External links[edit]

Survive! at IMDb
Survive! at AllMovie

[1] As with the U.S. distribution of Survive! (1976), Paramount Pictures later distributed in Alive (1993), except in the United States and Canada, where it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the studio's adult-orientated Touchstone Pictures banner.

[2] Villa Roiz, Carlos (1997). Popocatépetl: mitos, ciencia y cultura : un cráter en el tiempo. Plaza y Valdés. p. 336. ISBN 9688564885.

[3] Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruétalo (2009). Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America. Routledge. pp. 160, 163, 166–167. ISBN 978-0415993869.

[4] Hofler, Robert (2010). Party Animals. Da Capo Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0306816550.

[5] "The Screen: 'Survive!'". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2013.

[6] Ebert, Roger (September 6, 1976). "Survive!". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 31, 2020 – via RogerEbert.com.

[7] "'Survive' Smash $1,060,000, Chi; 'Bodyguard' Tall 22G, 'Wine' 17G". Variety. September 8, 1976. p. 14.

[8] "50 Top-Grossing Films". Variety. September 15, 1976. p. 9.

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v t e Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
People	Francisco Abal Roberto Canessa Roberto François Javier Methol Carlos Páez Rodríguez Nando Parrado Numa Turcatti Gustavo Zerbino
Books	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974) Miracle in the Andes (2006)
Films	Survive! (1976) Alive (1993) Alive: 20 Years Later (1993) Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains (2007) I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash (2010) Society of the Snow (2023)
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